With three appearances on the ramp for Falabella, a multinational Chilean company, Colombian model and Miss Universe 2014, Paulina Vega, was the star of one of the fashion shows at ColombiaModa 2015 in Medellin city Tuesday.

Colombia’s government said Saturday it is suspending aerial bombings of guerrilla camps in a bid to de-escalate fighting and breathe new life into struggling peace talks. President Juan Manuel Santos made the announcement Saturday night at a military ceremony in Cartagena

Criminals organizations make an annual profit of approximately $5 billion (14 trillion pesos) through money laundering, according to authorities. The Unit of Financial Information and Analysis (UIAF) and the World Bank announced this at an international conference on money laundering held in Cartagena last week.

After three years of research with semi-rural impoverished communities, along with field work which established a plan to build basic housing in the Mexican communities of Puebla, Santa María de Cocos and Chiapas, makes the VACA program a cooperation model which hopes to be echoed in Colombia.

Colombia will declare six new natural national parks across the country in a move to conserve these ecosystems and protect this land from destruction as a result of mining and other activities. Over 1.6 million hectares of land will be officially protected as authorities embark on the necessary consultation and analysis required to establish these areas as conserved national parks.

When Arregocés Coronado and his clan of Kogi began reclaiming their ancestral land at the base of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta about a decade ago, they discovered that it had been turned into a vast coca farm.

Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA said last Thursday it would not renew a contract to import gas from neighboring Colombia and would instead tap local production to supply its gas-deficient western region.

Uiversidad Nacional researchers use the rational design model, using a series of key enzymes which vary just a little from one microbe to another; specifically binding proteins which do not change between strains.

A public bicycle sharing system has found great success in Medellin, Colombia’s second largest city. However, a lack of space to cycle safely is keeping the city from becoming a true bicycle-friendly city.

Dressed in a parrot-feathered headdress and a collar strung with the teeth of pumas, crocodiles and bears, shaman Juan Mutumbajoy sings incantations over a row of shot glasses filled with a murky infusion he has made from two Amazonian vines.